Sleep apnea symptoms linked to memory and thinking problems
People who experience sleep apnea may be more likely to also have memory or thinking problems, according to a preliminary study released today, March 3, 2024, that will be presented at the American Academy...
Abdominal Radiologist Alyssa Kirsch, MD, Joins UCSF Faculty in the ZSFG Division
We are thrilled to introduce Alyssa Kirsch, MD, our most recent faculty hire in our Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) division.
Having completed her abdominal imaging and ultrasound fellowship at the...
Automated detection of Alzheimer’s disease: a multi-modal approach with 3D MRI and amyloid PET
World Health Organization. Dementia. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia Accessed 30 September 2022, (2022).Ahmed, M. R. et al. Neuroimaging and machine learning for dementia diagnosis: recent advancements and future prospects. IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng. 12, 19–33 (2018).Article
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Can a single brain region encode familiarity and recollection?
The human brain has the extraordinary ability to rapidly discern a stranger from someone familiar, even as it can simultaneously remember details about someone across decades of encounters. Now, in mouse studies, scientists at...
Biomarker-based staging of Alzheimer disease: rationale and clinical applications
Nichols, E. et al. Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 18, 88–106 (2019).Article
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Learning and memory problems in down syndrome linked to alterations in genome’s ‘dark matter’
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) reveal that the Snhg11 gene is critical for the function and formation of neurons in the hippocampus. Experiments with mice and human tissues revealed the gene...
Welcoming Kambiz Nael, MD, to UCSF’s Neuroradiology Division
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to welcome Kambiz Nael, MD, to the Neuroradiology division as Professor In Residence.
Dr. Nael has a...
Long-term memory and lack of mental images
When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) investigated how the lack of...
Visual processing speed and its association with future dementia development in a population-based prospective...
The present study aimed to evaluate the test performance of the VST for the risk of future dementia development in comparison to established dementia screening tests, the HVLT and the SF-EMSE. The results of...
Yoga provides unique cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer’s disease
A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline and reversing...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...